Corset



(No Model.)

s. B. PERRIS.

CORSET.

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ATENT OFFICE.

SIIERIVOOD B. FER-RIS, OF LAKEXVOOD, NEV JERSEY.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters 'Patent No. 442,968, datedDecember 16, 1890.

Application filed June 14, 1890. Serial No. 355,452. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

be safely carried within the waist and always retained in the desiredposition.

The invention consists in the novel details of improvement that will bemore fully hereinafter set forth, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming parthereof, wherein- Figure lis a perspective view ot' a corset providedwith my improvement. Fig. 2 is a detail inside view showing how thepocket is held in the corset. Fig. 3 is a detail outside view at thepocket, and Fig. t is a cross-section on the line c c, Fig.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates a corset, which isshown provided with shoulder-straps B, skirtsupporters c, andstockingsupporters h.

D is a pocket shown placed in the depression between the swell CZ ot'the bust or bosom and the vertical external edge e of the corset, bywhich the two halves of the corset are joined. The pocket D, which isshown in the form of an independent baglike structure having twovertical parallel sides, is placed on the inner side of the corset, itsopening f on top leading to the outer side ot the corset, as shown. Thepocket D overlaps the junetion g of the two sections 7i i of the corset,as shown. The pocket D is held on one of its vertical sides by the lineof stitches j, that hold the casing c2 for the steel, clasps, buttons,or button-holes at the edge c of the corn set, while its other verticaledge is held by the line of stitches l, that hold the section m on theswell d of the bust or bosom.` By this means economy of manufacture isproduced while the pocket is firmly held so:that it cannot movesidewise, thereby preventing the contents of the pocket from coming overthe bosom or behind the steels at the center of the corset, wherebyinjury to the person or to the contents of the pocket is prevented.

The lower doubled edge of the pocket is shown free or disconnected, sothat the pocket can be distended to receive its contents even while itssides are held to the corset and without changing the contour of thecorset. The upper outer edges of the pocket .at the mouth of the sameare bound by braid n o, which strengthens it at that part.

By the above-described arrangement the 6o pocket is iirmly held inposition, and it is placed in the depression between the swell of thebust or bosom and the edge e, so that the contents of the pocket willnot show through the waist, and whereby also the some special fasteningdevice (if made secure.) Such device is not ot' my invention, nor is apocket which depends from a pocketopening. The special location of thepocket and the particular means of securing it in xed positiondistinguishes it from prior 8o pockets.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is- In a corset, apocket located between its front central vertical line and thebosomswell ot' the same, said pocket lying within the corset and havingone of its vertical edges stitched thereto near said central line andits other vertical edge stitched to the same along the edge of thebosom-swell section, 9o

and provided at its upper part with an open.` ing through the corset,substantially as set tort-h.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I have signed myname, in presence ot two witnesses, this llth day of `Iune, 1800.

SI-IERYVOOD B. FERRIS.

Witnesses:

T. F. boU'nNE, THEODORE BOURNE.

